I would assume no mini-disc would be able to hold modern games. They could sell you a blu-ray with an external drive where you plug it into the Switch and download it on the HDD. Sounds pretty horrible. Honestly, Key Cards is the best thing they could come up with at this point. Affordable physical media isn't a thing for handhelds with file sizes that big.
Yes, we are.
Numbers say otherwise.
Sure they don't... you're just falling in to the trap of digital people trying to get others not to buy them so everything becomes digital-only. If you've bought PS5 games then you have Game Key Discs that function the same as Game Key Cards do. Stop supporting them and embrace a digital-only future.
You'd really have two options: pay higher prices for physical carts or buy digital. Nobody is going to pay $100 for physical option.
And where exactly do these 100$ come from ? Of course people will put 10$ or 15$ more in a real physical game. You can also release both.
Doubt. What about bigger games like FFVIIR? There really is no other solution here.
If you can't fit your game in 64GB then maybe the issue is somewhere else, but that's only my opinion.
Sure do.
Nintendo hoped that only offering one card size would lead to high demand for the 64GB cards, and therefore lead to lower prices. Instead, third party publishers largely went for GKCs and so this has backfired.
I guess they could make Cart 1 and Cart 2... but fuck that.
I wish there were a better option, but even if Nintendo switched, it would cost even more for real games, and people hit the roof over $80 games already.
That is called Virtual Game Cards, it is a new way to manage DIGITAL games and share them between your systems and lend them to friends.
We don't know that.
...and the internal storage is tiny. Even adding an expensive SD card it's still way less then XSX or PS5. If the Switch 2 was planning on this game key card crap, they should have had a 1TB internal storage at MINIMUM.
It won't be. Most people don't care about just buying their games digitally. This is just Nintendo fans going through the same "but my physical games" crisis that PC gamers, xbox gamers, and PS5 gamers went through. In the end it won't make any difference to the success of the system and the games that release.
They are not on the Switch and especially in Asia. Most major games are at least 50% physical.
That's the thing, isn't it? If Nintendo mandated key-card as the minimum and have 16gb, 32gb carts to lower cost, the whole thing would have gone a lot smoother.
Magnitude faster, like 100MB vs 600-800MB.
Considering Switch 2 likely revolutions and textures, even CoD should fit into 64GB.
well I guess that's why they don't have more carts.
That's why i refuse to buy them. I am not going to buy any Nintendo game that is not physical.
